According to certain beer commercials , the contemporary version of success【B1】______in moving up to a premium brand that costs

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问题     According to certain beer commercials , the contemporary version of success【B1】______in moving up to a premium brand that costs a dime or so more per bottle. Credit-card companies would have you【B2】______success inheres in owning their particular piece of plastic.
    【B3】______the flag of success, modern-style, liberal arts colleges are withering【B4】______business schools are burgeoning,and yet even business schools are having an increasingly hard time【B5】______faculty members, because teaching isn’t【B6】______" successful" enough. Amid a broad consensus【B7】______there is a glut of lawyers and an epidemic of strangling litigation, record numbers of young people continue to flock to law school【B8】______, for the individual practitioner, a law degree is still considered a safe ticket.
    Many, by external【B9】______, will be "successes". Yet there is a deadening and dangerous flaw in their philosophy: It has little room, little sympathy and less respect for the noble failure, for the person who【B10】______past the limits, who【B11】______gloriously high and falls unashamedly 【B12】______
    That sort of ambition doesn’t have much place in a world【B13】______success is proved by worldly reward【B14】______by accomplishment itself. That sort of ambition is increasingly thought of as the domain of irredeemable eccentrics,【B15】______people who haven’t quite caught on—and there is great social pressure not to be one of them.
    The irony is that today’s success-chasers seem obsessed with the idea of not settling. Yet in doggedly【B16】______the rather brittle species of success now in fashion, they are【B17】______themselves to a chokingly narrow swath of turf along the entire【B18】______of human possibilities. Does it ever【B19】______to them that, frequently, success is what people settle for【B20】______they can’t think of something noble enough to be worth failing at?
【B9】

选项 A、levels
B、criteria
C、standards
D、rule

答案C

解析 本题考查近义词辨析。level意为“水平,水准”,rule意为“规则”,两项都不符合句意;criteria和standard均有“标准”之意,但criteria指用来判断、批评事物的“标准”,这个标准可以是个人所依据的标准;standard是事先制定出来的用来衡量事物的质量、品质等公认的“客观标准”。句意是:“用外在的标准来判断,许多人将成为‘成功人士’。”这里所说的标准是既定的公认标准,因此,应用standard。
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